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This is a "Thank You" note to the crew over here in Non-Human. I had a story - "Pogo's Very Long Day" - accidently stranded out of category over here, and the readers here were very gracious about it. This was a piece I wrote a back in July-August just to get it out of my head, with no real intention of posting it. After thinking about it, I asked sbrooks103 to edit it for me so it would be presentable. As usual, any errors are mine, probably due to ignoring his advice or adding something after his edit. Thanks again for your patience.
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I watched Tawni stalk into the student cafeteria; she had a sort of springy predatory bounce to her that was really attractive. Not that watching her was ever painful - she filled her tight jeans perfectly. I was expecting her, since I helped her out with her science homework every day.
I wasn't exactly making bank as a grad student and tutoring helped pay a few bills. My Dad and I had been scraping by since Mom died of cancer ten years ago. The medical bills had nearly overwhelmed us, so we'd both worked extra jobs just to get by.
I needed all the money I could get by tutoring, so I took on students who had real problems "getting it".
Tawni wasn't exactly my best student; she was smart enough, but moody and she had a lot of absenteeism that meant she spent more time catching up than usual. She was cute, and if I let myself think about, pretty damn sexy in a petite, athletic way. But I kept those ideas tamped down - it's really bad to get tangled up with one of the undergrads if you're trying to avoid drama.
She arrowed in on me and sat her round little butt as close to me as humanly possible without sitting in my lap. That was kind of odd. She usually tried to keep her space.
She didn't look directly at me, but I could see a certain edgy gauntness of manner to her that seemed very unlike her normal cheerful self. She flopped her notebook and papers out in front of us.
She began talking without preamble, "So if you could explain the valence thing again."
I stared at her. This was so unlike her - she always told some goofy joke and talked about the weekend race - she raced women's motocross in the pro-am division. She invariably put off studying as long as she could. She was also wearing some kind of very distracting perfume - though I couldn't put my finger on it.
"Uh, Tawni, is everything okay?"
She jerked her head around - her green eyes were glittering with something like anger. She looked drawn and strained.
"I'm fine." Sharp, bitten words.
I leaned in toward her - I thought for a second I saw her lip curl and heard a growl, but decided it was my imagination.
"Not to push it, your business is your business, but you just put your Spanish homework and what looks like your personal calendar on the table. Upside down. So I don't think you are fine."
Her eyes glittered even more - welling with tears.
"I'm just...just," She stopped.
Something about her was different today - without meaning to, I felt myself put my arm over her shoulders. She leaned into me, looking at the table. At first I was fine - I was, but then, there was a sort of warmth where our thighs were touching that spread. I felt myself getting hard. I was, frankly, horrified. Here I was trying to comfort Tawni, and I had a hard-on.
She looked sharply up at me - her nostrils were flared and she had a slightly feral look. She had a smile, but it wasn't fun, it was hungry - and her canine teeth seemed longer.
Her hand dropped to my thigh, gripping hard, nails biting through my jeans- about an inch from my rod.
Harsh whisper "You sense it, don't you?!"
I didn't know what to say. What was "it"?
She very deliberately relaxed her grip and slid her hand over my hard-on. I don't know what I expected... a scream? A disgusted look?
Instead she looked... pleased.
Instead of freaking out, she seemed to relax.
"Thank God." She was idly stroking my shaft. Which was nice, but I was confused as hell. And to make matters worse, I could see her diamond hard nipples poking through her shirt.
Without stopping she held her other had up, in a "stop sign", closed her eyes and said through gritted teeth, "SShhh! Just give me a minute; I need this."
I stayed frozen. She made a sound that couldn't be anything else other than a soft purr.
She finally stopped - which was good since I had no other jeans in my locker. She looked me straight in the eyes. "I'll be at your truck in the parking lot right after my final class. It ends at 5. I'll explain everything."
She bared pointed teeth. "Don't. Be. Late."
It wasn't an invitation, it was a threat.
She collected her stuff, and walked out of the cafeteria - her ass was absolutely entrancing - she looked back to make sure I was watching and put a definite twitch in her tail for me.
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At 5 o'clock, I went straight to my truck and found her already sitting on the hood.
She got in when I did.
"Do you know of any place we can go to be completely alone?"
I nodded. "I built a little cabin off old route 45, back in the woods. It isn't much but I don't have to pay rent. And we will have complete privacy to sit and talk."
She smiled her hungry smile again. "Yeah, talk. Sure."
We got to the cabin in record time - her perfume was overwhelming even though I couldn't actually narrow it down to anything particular. Musk, maybe. And my hard on had returned with aching intensity. She seemed rigid, staring straight ahead, trembling every now and then.
Once we got into the cabin, I began lighting the oil lamps - not the safest thing in a wooden cabin, but nice. She stalked around the three room cabin, checking every corner.
I was lighting the final lamp when she asked around the corner of the bedroom.